Presenting a gift during any auspicious program is an old then among Indians. So while choosing your gift be selective.
India is believed to have a good trade relation with the land of Egypt since the historic period. Both the civilizations are believed to be almost contemporary when the Indus Valley civilization came up in India by the Indus River and the Egyptian civilization came up by the Nile River. Historians found out a lot of similarities between the natures of the two oldest civilizations of history. The pattern of religious belief in both the countries too has got similarities in terms of worshipping of the nature. Both the civilization believed in worshipping of the trees, the animals and serpents, and the lotus flower. The Indus Valley civilization people believed in the life after death and almost everybody know how much the Egyptian too believed in the afterlife and hence came up with the idea of mummifying their mortal bodies and keeping those in the safe custody of the huge pyramids. There is also a belief that to give a wrap of medicated cloths around the mummies, the Egyptian used the Indian muslins. So when muslins came from India, there must have been an extensive trade off between the two countries. Apart from the religions, the Indians and Egyptians have got similarities in taste for food like meat and fish with spices, rice and wheat cakes etc. as their daily dishes. There is also an interesting similarity in the hookahs used in both the countries for smoking tobaccos. The Arabs of Egypt and surrounding nations were educated like their Indian counterparts and scholars of both the civilizations were respected for their high ideas of science and mathematics.
Indians are found settled at various parts of Egypt, mostly in Cairo and some in Alexandria. There are Hindus, but many Muslims and Christians from India settled there. As a matter of fact, Egypt has got Muslims and Christians as its two main religious communities living there. The Muslims celebrate the bigger Bairam and the smaller Bairam with much pomp and galore. The orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas and Easter with equal grace and glory. However, being a minority the Hindus from India there do not get as much a chance to celebrate their religious festivals along with the whole nation. The sparsely populated Hindu population from India generally come together to celebrate Holi, Dusshera or Vijaya Dashami and the Dewali. There is this one "Indian Community Association in Egypt" which provides an umbrella for all the Indians living in Egypt to come together to celebrate the bondage of their nationality. The association is helping to be the cultural melting point where Indians living there can come up with their experiences and do thought exchanges.
There are some companies like GiftsAcrossIndia today who serves Indians living in outside their countries like in Egypt to relive the bondage they share with their relatives back home in India. GiftsAcrossIndia is a professional agency which helps Indians to send gifts on occasions easily to India. There is the company website GiftsAcrossIndia.com which serves one to choose from the myriad range of gifts they offer to more than 500 destinations in India. It has 24-hour customer support and helpline and sends gifts even in midnights. From fresh flowers to expensive jewelleries and watches, they are professional enough to understand sentiments and deliver gifts.
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